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From: SifGreyWillow (Original Message) Sent: 8/7/2008 10:36 AM
Make your Own Pumpkin Patch

Remember dyeing hard boiled eggs for Eoster/Ostara why not for the Harvest Festival or Halloween? All you need are hard boilled eggs, some orange food coloring and let your imagination run wild!!

What you need:
Hard boiled eggs
(how many depends on how big you'd like your pumpkin patch to be)
Orange food coloring
if you need to make the orange from red and yellow coloring it would be a great opportunity to show your Kids how to create colors.
Black laundry magic marker
Piece of cardboard
Toilet paper rolls or rolls from paper towels
Green construction paper, green crayoned paper or left over "grass"
What you do:
Once you have dyed your eggs orange and they are completely dried, you can draw faces on them . Draw the face in pencil first and then trace over it with the black marker. You can include black lines from top to the bottom to look like the natural marks found on a pumpkin. Make your own jack-o' lantern! Then cut a piece of the paper roll so that the egg fits in it. This provides a stand for the egg. The stand can be colored with crayons or decorated with glitter.
Attach the " grass "with glue to the cardboard. If you are not using grass you can make some with green colored/ construction paper. Just let your little one cut strips of paper and again attach with the glue.
You can add little fences to the patch or anything you like to make a personalized patch. Makes a great table decoration and your Kids can really get into it. Have a pumpkin hunt Outside ! Have fun!